• What do the Best Do?

    Updated: 2012-04-29 16:25:03
    I was thinking recently about those habits and practises, attitudes and behaviours that my best students have exhibited over the years. Arrogance Yes, believe it or not, my best students have a little arrogance. Not aggressive, nor does it present itself negatively towards others. They simply have the arrogance of self belief that they work [...]

  • Why Actors Think You Can’t Act

    Updated: 2012-04-29 14:01:46
    According to a too large percentage of actors I encounter you can’t act.

  • The Shakespeare Challenge

    Updated: 2012-04-23 15:11:35
    Dear All Today is the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s Birth and Death. Today, I will tell you a few things fascinating facts about the swan of Avon and leave you with a challenge. 1 ) At many times, Shakespeare has been spelt Shakespere and even Shagspeare. Last month, the British retailer Top Shop was roundly [...]

  • Acknowledge

    Updated: 2012-04-18 22:13:35
    Today’s blog is related to the blog about Presence and has come out of our class work at the studio. The first step of Repetition, the first part of an ADRA moment, the first part of As-Iffing, the Gibberish moment. It is the first part of every moment of action, of acting, it is the [...]

  • Director’s Deceit?!

    Updated: 2012-04-15 14:01:22
    I shouldn’t need to muster this warning of a director’s possible deception… But recently… one actor who I consider part of my colleague-family wrote to me of his/her being snared by a neophyte director pursuing questionable financial requests of actors he casts. Is every actor vulnerable?

  • Circles of Presence

    Updated: 2012-04-12 18:24:41
    The voice coach Patsy Rodenburg talks eloquently in her TED talk about why she does theatre.  It’s quite a moving story she tells at the end, and she says many things that reinforce the way that we work at ACS Studio.  Truth. Presence.  Being in the Moment. She also explains her theories on circles of [...]

  • Tales from the Trenches Part 4

    Updated: 2012-04-05 11:15:45
    Today is the final part of our series of guest blogs by actor/director Paul Birchard Okay – I’ve got the callback. I’ve got the new script. But the characters and plot are now so poorly constructed, the dialogue so thin and overblown, the whole thing has become very tough to breathe any life into whatsoever. [...]

  • Tales from the Trenches Part 3

    Updated: 2012-04-04 11:15:03
    Today is Part 3 of our series of blogs by actor/director Paul Birchard… I’ve got the callback – I’ve got the new script – and it’s…It’s… Not good. There is no longer any conflict between Good and Evil. Everyone is evil, more or less. The good wife sorely tested (who could handle a rifle all [...]

  • Tales from the Trenches Part 2

    Updated: 2012-04-03 11:15:18
    Today is Part 2 of Actor/Director Paul Birchard’s Guest Blogs… So – I recently went up for this western to be shot out in Romania. I had the full script, and I really liked it, as scripts go. In spite of the story being cliche?d, the dialogue was well written and therefore easy to memorize. [...]

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